The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-10-28
FOR FARM AND FARMER,

FOR FARM AND FARMER.
A Great Array OF Good Hluts for tho Month
OF November. {.h.
Have you an ics.house ready p?
Avoid waste In securing crops. l5.
Fix up your promises for winter. HI
Don't pasture too late, Mr.. Rural. W
Save all the cornstalks for fodder.
Now hasten the iattenine Of stock.
Haste makes waste" on the farm.
It doean't pay to winter poor stock.
Push the fs,tening pigs and poultry.
Protect the sheep from cold storms.
Holslein cattle are gaining in favor.
Pure water only for cows and horses.
Prepare good sheds, etc, for winter.
( Good Tor dull tools-grindstone music.
Separate sick animals from we'll ones.
Provide good fuel for rye guide Wife"
Better aelec. and save good ssod corn.
Hereford cattle breed we'll when aged.
Nuisances-.poo fences and unruly cattle
"A good season for ditching, draining and
digging wells
4 Avoid giving the lions share Of profits
10 niddlemen. 'fs5
The hoeks and herds need wedding, the
came as heldS. =,
Do not allow your cattle to drink from
a Btagnant pool. 8E1.. ls
The very best mine for farmer to in.
vest in 10 his farm.
In preparing products for market, try to
please purchasers. 5sly's q.
After securing your crops sec to market.
ing them proitably. ,T-.. A.
Produce not marketed ahould DO well
stored and protected.
Never emoke in barnyard or barn, nor
allow others to do so.
In tsansplanting trees, be careful to pre-.
serve the roo;s moist. I'm
All breeding ia founded upon tie axiom
that like bsgets like"
Pat dwelling and outbuilding in order
for the coming winter.
In setting out raspberry planta, don't
tusy tho roots too deep.
The best breed is good care, good water,
good food and good barn. .sI
Good care is reckoued to bs the farmers
best horse and COW doctor.
Breed the horse first for strength and
endurance, and then for style: 4
Sheep and pigs are said to prefer dried
pea fodder to the best hay, and both thrive
on the food.
Sell tho old hens il possible. They
son't pay for keeping over winter, and
will soon be unsuitable. .l%
Don't consider your home pre- pared for
winter until the cellar is cleaned and put
in tidy, healthy state.
Clear out tho last remnant of manure
from barnyard, stable and hog pens, aud
put it on the wheat field.
Have you gathered G supply Of road
dust for chicken baths? 1t will prove
useful in the hen.houss next winter.
Sorghum is said to ,hsve stood the
droutn in the Yves. gplendidly, furnishing
excellent fodder shen all else was wilted.
Young turkeys should only be allowed
to run in fields where the grasu is cut
short, IS wet plumsge seems to be fatal to
them. .s- -'l.7 & airz.,
This farmer who cells tho bent and keeps
the poorest seeds and animals is on the
right road to the wrong p!acs. Better
bout face" IN
Farmers Institute will be held in
twenty New York counties the coming
winter, under the auspices Of the State
Agricultural Society.
II is about as wise to expect mouse to
envelope into coed big rat as to look Tor
cold-blooded mongrel of colt to grow
into fine and valuable horse. "a I,
Get to work and Gull your fowls at once
,fyou have not already done 30. Every
tanCier has lots Of birds after breeding ses.
son that sre no ornament to his yards,
aud only an expense to feed them. Keep
sss birds and better quality. h
The Rural Kermonter naya that ''lawyer
gives you FIVE minutes advice on TOPIC
And charges your 81 for it. An editor will
give in hia journal advice on hundred
topics and charge five cents copy for bis
paper, and very often five cents given to
an editor would save IS given TO a lawyer"
Some one in Iowa has introduced to 90.
iice o new fuel which is designed to take
the place OF coal in the prairie countries.
This fuel is made by grinding cornatalks
and co,yse prairie grass together, moisten-
ing them and then pressing the pulp into
blocks about twelve inches long and four
inches thick. These blocks AFRO then dried.
1t Ia claimed that one block will give an
hours steady hest, and that the fuel can
Dc produced for s. per ton. Il : IS
In purchasing farm, seek such lcca.
lien as you would be willing to spend the
remainder Of your life in. Do not bs aatis.
fed with the first place you fiud for some
arguing that you will likely want to move
further west bsiore long anyway. It does
not pay to!move every two or three years.
Select place that will make a home, and
hen set about making IL that. Plant
fruit, shrubs and trees; fix it up; and in
len years you will have q farm that you
aud your children after you can DO Justly
proud of.-CaN. XII s{ E. y
Time Table for Boiling vcgotables.
Potatoes, half an hour, unless new ones,
when rather less time is required. Il !.
Peas and asparagus, twenty to forty
minutes. B h s.,
Cabbage and csulihowsr, an hour. igi
String beans, il slit and sliced slantwise
and thin, forty.iye minuteg; il only snap.